end/line Group Post: 7 May

¶ 1Leave a comment on paragraph 10
With just over one week until our presentation, we’ve had to prioritize our work and trim our wishlist to have the best possible product. See below for a rundown of where everything stands.

¶ 2Leave a comment on paragraph 20Development. We finally have our SSL certificate and our upgraded Heroku hosting configured—thanks Lisa and the Graduate Center! This small, but necessary, task will secure endlineproject.org and help protect user data. Brian and Greg, meanwhile, have completed nearly all of the necessary back- and front-end work. Hopefully, we’ll put together a snazzy “How It Works” page with interactive graphics in time for the 17 May presentation.

¶ 3Leave a comment on paragraph 30Community Management. I haven’t seen any further beta testing feedback but, given that we’re at the end of the spring semester, I’m not surprised. Perhaps over the summer we can work with some potential users. During this past week’s class, Lisa made a number of good suggestions about how to improve the branding of the site. Admittedly, much of the static content on endlineproject.org is a little outdated, so I made a few small edits to the About and Contact pages, and Iuri has written a News post about our #dayofDH testing. Michael has pitched in to help to draft our NEH grant proposal.

¶ 4Leave a comment on paragraph 40Presentation. Our in-class presentation was a little off-the-cuff, so I compiled a brief outline this weekend, which I hope we can build off of in the next few days.

¶ 5Leave a comment on paragraph 50NEH grant proposal. We’re currently trying to re-use as much project documentation as possible to pull this together. Completing this proposal, however, will need to wait until after we deliver our presentation.

¶ 6Leave a comment on paragraph 60Letting go… I realize, thankfully but belatedly, that I haven’t been the best collaborator over the past few weeks. In fact, with the presentation and grant proposal looming, I’ve probably taken on too much recently (perhaps feeling that I, as project director, needed to have a say in everything). Lisa pointed this out, and team members volunteered to do much-needed work, so I’ve made an effort since Wednesday’s class to be more direct and facilitate the contributions of others.

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